Published Jun 2, 2021
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Brevity Is The Soul Of Wit

Published Jun 2, 2021
3 mins read
653 words

The phrase “Brevity is the soul of wit” means that an intelligent individual can express himself in the fewest possible terms.

Less bright and mediocre people will write pages and pages on a certain subject. However, a clever individual who can convey something with the fewest number of words is an art. Such a quality cannot be taught but must be inherited.

A clever individual does not squander a single word and organizes a variety of concepts in the most methodical, reasonable, and compelling way possible. He can make it intriguing. The reader forgets about their current surroundings and enters the writer's universe.

Wit and humor are manifestations of life's ridiculousness. Wit is a lightning bolt, an electric spark, or a flash of brilliance. A great comedic narrative may appeal to people of all ages. Without them, no discourse is complete. They satiate our intellectual appetite and allow us to absorb the more serious aspects of the discussion.

An excellent writing style arouses curiosity at the outset, sustains it throughout, and fulfills it at the conclusion. One of life's true joys is a literary work that offers the reader with good mental excitation and eventual relief. This applies whether you're creating poetry, a tale, a play, a biography, or a magazine piece.

Honesty, simplicity, brevity, clarity, coherence, vividness, and fire are characteristics of a good style. The third need for a moral style is brevity. The era of the author with big words and phrases is over. The pace of life is too quick. The intellect has always been quicker than the body. The famous writers, with their little words, give the readers wings of imagination. The most well-remembered passages in Homer, Shakespeare, the Bible, Dickens, Emerson, and Stevenson are the ones that move the mind the fastest. And it is brevity – brevity in the effort, shortness in the phrase, and shortness in a sentence – that gives them their swift stirring.

In the case of dramas and plays also, those will be better with fewer characters and less scenery, and shorter speeches. Brevity is the show is the soul of wit.

Brilliant discussion should also be avoided in discussions, which should be ‘smart' and short. A journalist's style will be pictorial and visual as well. The newspaper narrative must be practically telegraphic in its conciseness while still telling a comprehensive and compelling tale. The public is no longer interested in dull news stories. In the newspaper editorial section, the slogan is "brevity is the soul of wit." Wit and humor are crucial not only in news items but also in feature stories.

Thus, one should avoid hyperbole and flowery terms and adopt brevity in speech and writing so that wit and humor are properly understood by all.

People are frequently seen misappropriating Shakespeare's monologues for absurd advice like "neither a borrower nor a lender be" without comprehending that it was given by a pretentious ignoramus. This being said, there is validity in the belief that ‘brevity is the spirit of wit,' but only in the context of what is stated; if you are talking about a pointlessly lengthy aspect of an incident, you will find it difficult to be humorous.

The skilled writer understands when to be brief and when not to be, and the astute reader enjoys both the belief and the discursive while condemning prolix, flabby language.

Reading a lot of words does not impair your ability to think; rather, words are thoughts, and the more words you have at your disposal, the more particular and delicate your thinking maybe. The more diverse your vocabulary, the more nuanced your perception of it; it's the difference between 'alizarin crimson and red,' or 'pinot noir' and 'wine.' When you limit your exposure to language, you limit your ability for thought.

Following this, I infer that certain topics cannot be conveyed in a single sentence.

#BREVITY IS THE SOUL OF WIT
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neetu.vaishnav 6/12/21, 6:10 PM
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